NINE INCII NAILS have been involved in two rows
concerning allegedly “pornographic“ images in the past week. The video mode for
NIN‘s single “Sin“, scheduled for release at the end of October, has been
banned by Island Records because management at the company - who have recently been
the subject of legal action over NWA‘s allegedly “obscene“ “Efil4Zaggin“ album
- feared that the video‘s sexually explicit imagery might prompt similar action.
Island have consequently refused to release the master copy of the Nine Inch
Nails video from their store room.

A spokesman for the band told the Maker:
“Island‘s legal department has said it can‘t possibly leave the building,
because they‘d be prosecuted for obscenity if it did. The main thing that
people objected to was scenes of genital piercing. They were also worried about
a scene where first you see two gay guys petting and then, although you don‘t
see what happens in between, you see them smearing their own blood over each
other. There‘s also scenes of Trent Reznor in a thing called an oscillator,
which is a kind of sphere where you have your limbs fixed at the four points of
the compass and you can be spun around. Trent is seen in one of those being
flagellated by a dominatrix. There‘s lots of other stuff as well. You name it,
it‘s in the video!

“Trent has been asked to remake it with
some of the most offensive things cut out, and with some live footage spliced
in. But Trent has flatly refused to do that. He thinks it‘s really hypocritical that the
company which put out that video ‘Dick‘, which featured hundreds of dicks,
should object to his video.“

Meanwhile, Nine Inch Nails were arrested in
Bavaria, Germany, after replacing tapestries hung at their hotel with
pornographic pictures token from a magazine entitled “Pissy Girls“. The band
spent a night in police cells and were subsequently presented with a bill for £
2.000 for the damage.